Antonio Acierno Ph.D, MSc, Associate professor of Urban Planning at the Department of Architecture (DiARC) of the University Federico II of Naples. Dean of the Master in Territorial Urban Landscape and Environmental Planning at the University Federico II; Head of the Interdepartmental Research Center "A. Calza Bini”. He is member of the teaching board of the PhD programme in "Architecture at the Department of Architecture (DiARC). Member of the Board of the Regional Section of the National Institute of Urban Planning from 2014. Scientific editor in chief of the urban planning journal TRIA (www.tria.unina.it), indexed in Web of Science, published open access by FedOA Press. His main interests are the theory and innovation in Urban Planning and Design, regarding social and environmental safety of places, in urban and peri-urban contexts, both in research and teaching. He has published many books and scientific papers on national and international journals and book series on urban safety, green infrastructure, urban regeneration, urban and landscape planning. His last books published by the FedOA (Federico II University Open Access) Press: Acierno A., Coppola E. eds. (2022), Green Blue Infrastructure methodologies and design proposals; Acierno A. (2019), Chromatic city. Applying s-RGB Design to contemporary space.

Dr. Etleva NALLBANI is a medieval archaeologist and researcher at the CNRS/UMR 8167Orient et Méditerranée, Institute of Civilizations at the Collège-de-France in Paris. Trained at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and a former member of the École française de Rome, she has included in her professional career a dense research activity on several archaeological sites in Albania and Mediterranean Europe, in a framework of collaboration with French, German, Italian, British and Israeli research institutions and teams. Since 2009, she has been the director of the French-Albanian archaeological mission of the "Drini Valley in the Middle Ages" (supported by the MEAE and the EFR), which is part of a partnership between the French School of Rome, the Archaeological Institute of Tirana, the CNRS and the University of Geneva. Its long-term scientific and patrimonial approaches engaged on three major sites, Komani, Sarda and Lezha. Since 2018, the project is part of an ambitious territorial management and development program, together with the RGSF and in collaboration with Albanian heritage management institutions.